With summer days behind us and the ‘beach body’ aspirations all but a distant memory, it can be hard to keep up the healthy living momentum.

Thankfully boosting your health and wellbeing can be as easy as tapping on to an app.

Here are five guaranteed to put you on the right track.

1.Sleep Cycle

Sleep Cycle monitors your sleep pattern and your sleep quality, it also wakes you up during light sleep allowing you to feel naturally rested.

The app also measures how certain daytime activities can impact your sleep like caffeine consumption and exercise.

It also knows a lot about your body. It measures your heart rate and collates data of the time you went to sleep and when you woke up – over time this produces a set of statistics that can be used to get an early night and get a better sleep. It can even record your snoring.

2. Clue

Clue is a no-nonsense app for women looking to better understand their bodies. With a disclaimer that the app features ‘no flowers, butterflies, euphemisms or pink’, Clue offers in-depth information about your personal menstrual cycle.

The app allows you to track period, flow and the products you use as well as giving you an accurate prediction of when their next period is coming.

In addition to period tracking it can also log when you have had sex, how your mood changes throughout the month, the flow of cervical fluid and when you are ovulating. This allows you to see patterns over time.

3.Nutrition Quiz

While dieting apps are somewhat controversial and come with the risk of developing calorie paranoia and unhealthy eating habits, this fun app is different.

Rather than encouraging you to eat certain foods and banish others, this app aims to arm its users with information, revealing what is fact and what is fiction in the world of nutrition, and allowing users to do what they want with the information they have learnt.

In short, it’s a fun and simple way of understanding the food and drink you consume and how it affects the body.

4. Mush

This one is quite like Tinder but for mummies. One of the problems facing a lot of new parents is loneliness and this app aims to combat that by giving mums (and dads) a platform to meet other parents in the area.

Matches are based on location, similar interests and the age of your children.

Users are also asked to choose key words to describe ‘who I am’ ‘work status’ and ‘my life as a parent’. The latter includes tags like ‘baby-led weaner’ and ‘rainbow baby’ to help you match with parents who have similar experiences.

The app has a strong community in Bristol. On Friday, one Mush mummy is hosting a gert lush family time event in The Eastfield Inn to raise awareness of the app and to hopefully get more parents involved.

The event takes place from 1pm to 4pm and will include ‘fun, freebies and friends’. There will also be an array of businesses showcasing at the event including Lush, Happy Hands Music, Epic Photography and Swimkidz.

Proceeds from the get together’s raffle will go to Bluebell Care that supports parents with pre and post natal depression.

5. ESC Student

This little nugget of information should installed on every student’s phone. Developed by the University of Bristol, the app aims to arm students with advice on everything from sexually transmitted infections and first aid to dealing with stress and spotting symptoms.

It also comes with a section on where students can seek help, whatever their problem, within the uni campus.

The app came about when previous Health and Care Award winner, Dr Dominique Thompson, along with colleague Dr Knut Schroeder came up with the concept of writing a student health guide.

Originally intended to be a book, the pair were concerned that students wouldn’t bother reading it and so the idea was changed to an app.

Its format allows accessible and convenient information that is quick and easy to understand – perfect for busy students and any other parties wanting to get clued up on the go.

Whether it’s developing an app, uncovering a medical breakthrough or offering a listening ear. Bristol is full of health care heroes and we want to know all about them.

The Bristol Post’s Health and Care Awards recognises individuals and teams from every corner of the health sector who are doing their bit to keep us healthy and happy.